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Re: [PLUG] Looking to buy new dual-processor system
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Thanks for your input! I'm going to check out the ASUS. I have a ABIT PB6
in my other system.
I would consider the athelon, but I thought Intel has the 1ghz out as
well... hmm, oh well, my bad. The only thing I have against Athelons are
their bus speeds. Sure, they are the fastest out there, going at 200mhz,
but doesn't that create a bottleneck with most ram going at 133mhz, maybe
a few manufactures of 150mhz, the athelon is therefore worthless because
the full potiental of the buss speed is hardly seen.
Thanks again LeRoy. :)
On Sat, 9 Sep 2000, LeRoy Cressy wrote:
> Dual processor boards:
>
> For the 1GHz Athelon chips there are not any motherboards that I know of
> that support the athelon either in the slot 1 or socket A
> configuration. It would be nice if there was a main board manyfacturer
> that would create a board with dual processing support for the athelon.
> Now Intel does not have the speed of the AMD Athelon, but there is
> strong dual processor mother board support for the Intel line. I prefer
> ASUS boards and the P3C-D Asus board looks nice. (I only wish that
> ASUS would make a MB that has support for 133MHz FSB that incorporates
> both dual processor and Ultra 2 SCSI like their P2B-DS board.)
>
> http://www.asus.com/Products/Motherboard/Pentiumpro/P3c-d/feature.html
>
> I also prefer the SuperMicro line of full tower cases. They cost a
> little more, but they have good power supplies.
>
> As far as I'm concerned I would rather build a system than buy a ready
> built one off of the shelf. Especially for a high end box! If I build
> it, I know that it has the components that fit my needs. Also, you can
> incorporate Ultra SCSI 2 drives which are very fast. Also if you get a
> motherboard with onboard SCSI there is a little speed increase for the
> drives than going through a plug in PCI card.
>
> Chad Glynn wrote:
> >
> > Hey all,
> >
> > I'm looking to buy a new system, running linux of course, and I am
> > looking either a dealer that can give me the best out there, or advice as
> > to what I can get. I'm looking to buy a dual-processing powerhouse.
> >
> > Last system I bought was about a year ago, a dual-processor as
> > well running linux. I built this system myself but I had spent a lot of
> > time learning the new technology out there and what was compatible with
> > linux because I don't keep up with that as much as I would like to.
> >
> > I looked at VA linux because my company buys quite a bit from
> > them, and a few dealers listed on price watchs, but the most they offered
> > for dual-processing was 800mhz, if they offered dual-processing at all.
> > One place that did offer a dual-processing system had a dual 550mhz
> > for $1,800.00 I thought it was quite a ripp-off because I built a system
> > at the same speed with *more* faetures for $1,200, and that was a year
> > ago.
> >
> > So, I'm wondering if anyone here on the list knows of a good
> > dealer that could offer the best, and *knows* what is linux compatible.
> > Or, better yet, if anyone can offer me advice as to what the the latest
> > stuff out there that is compatible for linux, as well as what motherboard
> > have the latest dual-proccessing abilities. I'm looking to get the fastest
> > daul-processing out there (1ghz cpus?), as well as a great gfx card so
> > that I can play some multimedia stuff on.
> >
> > Thanks in advance!
> >
> > Chad :)
> >
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Chad :)
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